CVE-2015-1452 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2015-1452?

CVE-2015-1452 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fortinet Fortios, published on 2 Feb 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP) daemon in Fortinet FortiOS 5.0 Patch 7 build 4457 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (locked CAPWAP Access Controller) via a large number of ClientHello DTLS messages.

Weakness: CWE-17

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-1452?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Fortinet Fortios.

How do I fix CVE-2015-1452?

No fix has been published for CVE-2015-1452 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2015-1452 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-1452 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Fortinet Fortios

• CVE-2024-23113 Fortinet Multiple Products Format String Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-40684 Fortinet Multiple Products Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-55591 Fortinet FortiOS and FortiProxy Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2024-21762 Fortinet FortiOS Out-of-Bound Write Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2022-42475 Fortinet FortiOS Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.3

All Fortinet Fortios vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-jfjv-qmg2-v4v8.